Flooring

We bought a house.

We don't like the carpets.

We got Laminate flooring...

56 boxes is a lot.

Our car was barely moving.

If you were a Lego then it would look like this.
(sorry my Lego man has bad eyesight, he needs glasses)

For the sake of your back... DEAL WITH CARPETS!!!

--Inch

Please Pray for Priests

Today is the feast day of St. Jean Vianney patron saint of parish priests. below is a prayer for priests that our family is using.

Mallu Mom

Dear Lord,
we pray that the Blessed Mother
wrap her mantle around your priests
and through her intercession
strengthen them for their ministry.
We pray that Mary will guide your priests
to follow her own words,
“Do whatever He tells you” (Jn 2:5).
May your priests have the heart of St. Joseph,
Mary’s most chaste spouse.
May the Blessed Mother’s own pierced heart
inspire them to embrace
all who suffer at the foot of the cross.
May your priests be holy,
filled with the fire of your love
seeking nothing but your greater glory
and the salvation of souls.
Amen.

Saint John Vianney, pray for us.

Blessings

We feel very blessed for the health of our children.

A year ago today Mystical Rose was admitted in the hospital for 9 days. By the end of those 9 days she had major surgery and lost quite a bit of weight, and had proven her self to be an amazing little girl. When the doctors were about to take off her dressing, she grabbed my hand and said " Mommy I'm scared." She immidiatly started praying the Hail Mary! I was really moved by her faith.

Mystical Rose at the hospital talking to her baby sis

Today after Mass, she got a blessing from our favorite Dominican Priest and afterward he said," I am really glad you are alive today" So am I, we are truly blessed. We are also very blessed to have friends and family who stormed heaven with prayers, come to visit her in the hospital, cooked meals for us and was great support in many ways. Thank you.
Praise God!
Mallu Mom

Posters

Here are some posters to send you important messages. Read carefully.
*From Google

I wonder...

Have you ever wondered what animals think? I have, in fact I now know what they think:
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hope you feel edgamacated

Small Success

It’s important for moms to recognize that all the small successes in our days can add up to one big triumph. So on Thursday of each week, we do exactly that. ( I noticed some of my friends doing this and thought it would be a great way to keep me motivated)

1. With the help of a friend I got our arts and crafts supplies organized! It's been in disarray for quite some time. Every thing has a home!
2. I've uncluttered and packed up two bedrooms; with the help of the inhabitants of the room, and I am working on the third room!
3. I've been going to the gym at 6:30 am! I've been terrible about being consistent with exercise since GMAC arrived. My knees are already feeling better.
   

Quality Time

Mistical Rose and I had some quality time at the arts and crafts center on post; we worked on painting some ceramics. It was fun and relaxing.

Rose picke out a "piggy bank"..... well a "locker bank"!

Look at that concentration!

Just the gals

The end product; she did a terrific job!

Camp, evening schedule

This is what I did for the rest of the day

Evening Colors Ceremony—5:00
We put down the flag, does this need further explaining?

Retreat — 5:45 pm
Every evening Scouts and leaders gather on the parade field for our camp-wide retreat ceremony. Everyone is in full class A uniform. We march and salute the big flag and watch the big flag go down.

Dinner — 6:00 pm
Immediately following the retreat ceremony, we eat dinner. We still have to be in class A uniform for dinner.

Evening Activity Period — 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Every program area is open for Scouts to visit, mostly to finish merit badges. (I had to work on woodworking)

Special Evening Activity Period — 8:30 pm to 9:45 pm
Monday we had to find thirty random items (Like five boys in exact same band uniforms), we were in third place. Tuesday was troop night we had a campfire and played Risk (I won). Wednesday was patrol night; each patrol fought each other in a variety of challenges, from obstacle course to tying one-handed knots (third place). Thursday was outpost (or campfire if you didn’t take an outpost merit badge) Friday we had STAFF HUNT the staff went out all over camp and we had to capture them and bring them to HQ, WE GOT SECOUND PLACE!!!

Camp, afternoon schedule

Here is my afternoon camp schedule.

Lunch — 12:30 pm
Like breakfast but with different foods.
Oh yah, for camping merit badge we had to cook over an open fire (only Wednesday). I learned important lessons, when pancakes look like scrambled eggs, you used to much water in the batter. And Burnt pancake batter is good drowned in syrup. And Grease fires are bad. And after you put out a grease fire, if you put more grease on, another fire starts.

Siesta — 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
All program areas and the Trading Post are closed and the Scouts are expected to be in their sites. How fun :P This is why I brought Risk with me. This is supposed to be a time to give the staff a break
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Afternoon Instruction Period 1 — 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Camping Merit badge, it is my last Eagle required :) All we did was learn about a bunch of things that I already knew (4 years of camping) but did not “officially”.
Thursday night was outpost; we went with the camping guys from 4 on. We also built our own shelter, they told us to bring anything but a fire starter. The Boy Scout motto is “Be Prepared” so I brought duct tape. I was able to sit on the roof of my shelter.

Afternoon Instruction Period 2 — 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Electronics!! We got to solder (aka play with molten metal to connect other metals together). We made a little thing that beeps every few seconds, also we learned all about circuits and other things that I learned from The Magic School Bus. Fun class.

Special Interest Program — 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
SIPs are located at the different areas, I usually go to the pool one. We did things like water polo, beach volleyball, snorkel, Eskimo roll for kayaks…etc. I didn’t earn the patch because one of the days I was at outpost.

Crucian Dad AKA Mr porcupine

I have had a nagging shoulder injury for about a year now. I think I strained/tore a ligament while rolling in my Brazillian Jui Jitsu class (Mallu mom calls it wrestling with a bunch of sweaty guys in pajamas) Anyways Mallu's dad runs a Ayurvedic Herbal massage business.I thought that while I was there they could help my shoulder. They decided that acupuncture would be more beneficial than just massage. Well it was a little weird but it didn't hurt at all. I pretty much lay there, I even fell asleep once. At the later sessions the acupuncturist manipulated my arm with the needles still in. Well the verdict......... only 3 treatments really don't do much. My arm felt OK for a few days after the treatments but I think that if I could have had more treatments I would have seen a more permanent result.

--Crucian Dad